Ongoing

Explore SAORI (Japanese Free-Style) Weaving.

One 2-hour long class.
No age and skill limitation

Students will weave on SAORI loom which is very easy to use and it's for all levels and ages.
Since everyone has a different pace when weaving, the lenghth of woven cloth varies between 10 and 70 inches depending on individual. Many people get started in a short class like this and have fun with this style of this class. Students can decide what they will do with the fabric they weave. However, I assist with ideas as well.

• What is the real story behind all the bad economic news?

• Why are we not richer by our burgeoning tangible wealth, instead of poorer by a snowballing financial “debt”?

• How could it be that an innocent child born in the U.S. today is already, according to the “experts,” a quarter-million dollars in “debt”? When did newborn babies borrow this money? How are they supposed to “repay” it? Is their future mortgaged before it starts? Has “original debt” replaced “original sin”?

• If every dollar in circulation is “borrowed” into existence through “loans” from private banks, where does the money to pay the “interest” come from?

• After a century of explosive growth in real economic activity, why have we not grown out of our “debt”? Is there a perverse logic built into the system that is causing us to grow into it our “debt”?

• Why in the last century have family farmers been forced off the land by financial foreclosure, or threat of foreclosure, until now those living on the farm comprise less that two-percent of the population?

• What is this “debt” burden doing in real terms to our civilization, our earth, ourselves? What is “debt” anyway? What is its effect on the psyche of generations growing up in saturation of its financial demands, ecological devastation and social disintegration?

• If I am well-educated, working hard and “playing by the rules” in the “richest country on earth,” why can I not pay my bills and/or why am I perpetually in debt?

• Has fear of financial destitution replaced fear of dying as the most dreaded eventuality in people’s lives?

• Is there hope?

These and many other monetary riddles haunt our post-modern world. Indeed, they are increasingly experienced as threatening the viability of our personal lives, the existence of civilization, and even the continuation of life on earth itself. Can we get a perspective on this? Can we turn a corner? Is there a vision on the other side?

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Pre-EMS Academy is an EMT preparatory course offered by the Saint Paul EMS Academy.

The Saint Paul EMS Academy is an Emergency Medical Technician certification program that trains low-income youth (18-24 years) of Saint Paul to become EMTs. We provide all materials free of charge, free tuition, wrap-around supports, and an hourly wage for participants. The EMT curriculum is rigorous, so we have launched Pre-EMS to build the foundation needed for success in the EMS Academy.

Pre-EMS is an Adult Basic Education (ABE) course taught by Saint Paul Public Schools Hubbs Center. Pre-EMS is open to any individual interested in a career in EMS. Participants study the anatomy and physiology of the human body, develop vocabulary common in the EMS field, and improve reading and test-taking skills.

Class time totals 60 hours - 6 hours per week (M,W,F 8:30-10:30 AM) for 10 weeks (April 2 - June 8, 2012). Class will be taught at Station 51 in St Paul (296 West 7th St).

After completing Pre-EMS, graduates can enroll into the Summer 2012 EMS Academy, which runs June 18 - August 24, 2012.

There will not be class on Holidays.

Visit www.facebook.com/EMSAcademy or www.ehs.net/EMSAcademy for more information.

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UPDATE: The Farm of Minnesota, a CSA farm run by Dan and Donna Moe, will be the source for all of the vegetables used in class. I will be exchanging time on the farm for weekly supplies. To make suggestions for produce, visit the blog called "Source Found." Beginning on September 14th, a Wednesday, the Seward Co-Op will provide a full kitchen for our use! Until then, however, a location is yet to be found.

There are a couple of preconceived notions in the world of "Haute Cuisine." One: that good food is reserved for those who can pay for it, and two: that vegetarian meals are a joke. Well, it's my purpose as a chef to turn those preconceived notions inside out, because the reality is that the best cuisine is that which uses vegetables, as flavor ingredients as well as for substance, in the most effective and dynamic manner.

As an avid vegetarian myself,as well as a cook, I am creating this course to show people the true diversity of edible plant life in this world, and how to turn this plethora of delicious ingredients into something creative, dynamic and flavorful as well as satisfying and nutritious. Most of all though, I am creating this class to encourage the adoption of the most sustainable, healthy, and palatable diet known to man: ovo-lacto vegetarianism. We will, however, cover many aspects of the vegan diet as well as raw vegan dishes. Bottom line, this class will teach people how to create food that is as organic as it gets, prepared from scratch, and "good" in two ways. "Good" in the sense of extremely tasty, as well as "Good" in the sense of good for the environment, diversity, and life on this planet.

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Come and knit with us!  We can teach you the basics (we have some supplies to get you started), help you through a rough spot in your pattern, or just keep you company while you work on your own fantastic creation.  Crochet, cross-stitch, embroidery, latch hook, origami, bookbinding, friendship bracelet making, macrame, calligraphy, collage, and anything mostly portable and not too messy or noisy are also very welcome.  

This is a friendly knitting group. We sometimes meet at folks' houses, we potluck, we celebrate silly birthdays. We would love to see some new faces, whether you can only make it once in a while or every week.  There's a facebook group, Knitting and Such, if you'd like to check us out before you join us for an afternoon.

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